The recreation centre is the centre of activities in communities across Canada, and the hockey arena is the heart of most facilities. Rising energy prices over the last decade, however, has forced communities to look for energy efficient alternatives to industrial refrigeration plants that have been the norm for the last century. At the turn of the century the community of 100 Mile House in the centre of British Columbia made a decision to replace their aging hockey arena that had served them for the last 50 years. The community began researching other new facilities that had been built recently. Two new facilities they visited in Chase and Kamloops, BC caught their attention. Both facilities had installed an integrated geothermal refrigeration, heating, ventilating and air conditioning (R/HVAC) system